the established parties have had it their own way for too long
they don't lesten to the people that vote them in
they get big pay rises when others are told their wages are freezing
they complain that they cant live on 80k a year
they are going to get a bloody nose at the general election
only problem is we will end up with ed the duck miliband as prime minister
as it is the tories that will be decimated by ukip
That may not happen if the Tories firm up on a few policies.
The big by election news isn't the Tory loss but that Labour scraped through in the second by election by the skin of their teeth.
If roles were reversed I think Milliband would get in bed with UKIP but I suspect the Tories are more rigid in their views and won't. Labour are all about political expediency (champagne socialists who have never worked a proper job - I don't like his politics but I respect a guy like Alan Johnson who worked as a postie) even more than the Tories.
What's going to happen I fear is that Labour squeak it, we get 5 years of their usual economic disaster and at the same time the rest of politics, bar Red Ed and his Union paymasters, will shift more and more to the Right.
And polarised adversarial politics is a shitting disaster for the country. I love the UK but I fear we're going to really fuck ourselves up.
Ed Balls back in charge of the coffers. Those who vote for that really don't get the way the world works.
